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RS Benedict

@rsbenedict.bsky.social
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wrote that essay about superhero dicks * published in the New Haven Independent, New Haven Review, FSF, Fangoria, Blood Knife, Seize the Press, Typebar, Current Affairs * rs-benedict.com * RIP Rite Gud

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.
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A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them
A mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline...
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YOU DID IT BACKPACK
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Josh Helfgott: ICE detained a Los Angeles car washer and father of four for six months. His kids ended up in therapy, his family lost its income, and he is still fighting to stay in the country. José Padilla, 41, was detained by ICE on January 27 while he
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
techpolicy.press
Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h
Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)
propublica.org
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 17h
After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.
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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 18h
That one Clive Barker story where crucial world events are determined by senile weirdos on a commune betting on toad races makes a lot more sense these days.
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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 15h
really don’t understand this system we have where the Supreme Court lets the government continue doing a possible illegal thing until they decide it is for sure illegal. Just seems like we wouldn’t want to inadvertently sanction horrible crimes, as a rule
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 15h
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 16h
it is very easy to lose a patient, your honor
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Michigan nurse charged with helping ICE detainee escape
A Michigan nurse was charged with intentionally helping a Mexican ICE detainee escape from a hospital after a CT scan.
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 16h
My gut feeling is that Bari Weiss want actually supposed to fuck up 60 Minutes. She was definitely brought in to help curry favor but imo it was supposed to be handled carefully and instead she set the brand on fire by pissing off all the real journalists.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026
i don't think it's glib to say this: it's possible that nobody on earth cares less about consent than mark zuckerberg
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What blew my mind is how blatantly, directly Rogan works for Thiel and Epstein's bros. I always intuitively knew he was on their side, but that he's straight up having brunch with them and telling them how cool they are really shocked me
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”
theamericanvandal.com
All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School
On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts' Ability to Function
A panel of three Florida state district court judges blasted a family attorney for using AI to generate "frivolous, scattershot arguments."
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kansas Livestock Association comes out against the ICE Raids????!!!!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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John! @teleogougar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I work at a bookstore. The whole thing is seeing the ideas other people put out into the world and exposing yourself to that. Everything about this future is like, antithetical to the very few things I like about it and I don’t know what they expect to happen with this other than mass immiseration
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Losers.
Republican Men Are More Likely To Blame Women For Their Problems chart
• Democrat
• Republican
26
24
18 to 29
30 to 49
Source: Civility and Morality Survey, 2025.
50 to 64
65 and older
Survey Center
on American Life
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Narrative Matters (@itsnarrative on Twitter) @narrativematters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The student journalists at Cornell are very brave, and it's worth highlighting that they absolutely knew before going to press that publishing those names could negatively affect their chances in journalism because of bosses sympathetic to the fraternity members.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
Grocery prices are up, not “way down,” since former President Joe Biden left office. | Fact check: cnn.it/4xUDA65
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
dr eggman physique
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Spooky Sara (Endless Halloween🪦) @pashion.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Meme of girls going back in time they say "im your Granddaughter" response "really" and then me with time machine I'm a wizard  and I state "hello , Art Bell, I am a time traveler. " Art Bell says "Yes caller you are on the air" Coast to coast  radio show meme
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Dr Dr Dr Alfred Prunesquallor, PhD, JD, TLA (Time Lord Academy) @drprunesquallor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I hope these brave citizens will inspire many, many others. I wouldn't have the guts to act as they do, every such individual act of resistance should be like that butterfly we've all heard about. youtu.be/2gjFsuXYxRg?...
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Civilian Sends Federal Agents Packing with PERFECT Comeback
YouTube video by TYT Sports
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad
The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would like everyone to read this, from @eoinhiggins.bsky.social eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-...
eoinhiggins.substack.com
There are no “rogue” AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
Claude making a scientific discovery
Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know I'm late to the game but my god the new Elephant Graveyard is astonishing youtu.be/wn9pQb4ukBo?...
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How Comedy Drowned in a Radioactive Cesspool of Corruption and Depravity
YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
motherjones.com
Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care
California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stephen King published Misery in 1987. Judging by his portrayal of Annie Wilkes, fandom hasn't changed much since then.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026
extremely not a fandom person (it’s just not how i engage with things) but a) just sort of observing them anthropologically the idea that they were not always some level of toxic is untethered from reality. also it contradicts human behavior
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republicans excusing literal animal fucking while scaremongering about people who draw cartoon animals really feels like a microcosm for the whole movement
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Primetime was great! Robert Pattinson is completely unhinged in it.
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
from what I can tell, the only women in the room are paid to be there
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
bringing an iced coffee to my job interview at this mask-optional lesbian bar in western Massachusetts
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Funny that the end of 2026 has three major releases about how Zuck, Sam Altman and Musk are all fucking psychos. One could even say that is indicative of something.
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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A MOVE SOME LAWMAKERS CALLED ILLEGAL”?!?! I’m gonna pop a forehead vein on these headlines one of these days. How is the NEWS MEDIA unable to determine what is and isn’t true vs false vs subjective? That’s their whole fucking job.
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ember 🔥 @woketopus.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
dudes rock
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
nypost.com
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 26/09/2026
"So much for free speech. The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary Musk is finding itself unable to buy an ad on the biggest social platforms." www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?
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